An issue with Dolphn and ISOs

[maddiystic]

I think I'm just making an extremely stupid/silly mistake.

Yet I need help with it.


I am very new to emulators, etc. I've used a gameboy one ONCE before and barely understood.

You see, I want to play a gamecube game using Dolphin. I have version 3 (7719) of Dolphin, and I use the 64 bit version.
I use Windows 7.

The issue:
I have the extracted file in an easy access game folder, with Pikmin 2 being the only game in it. There is a folder that came from the .rar, and inside that, a bunch of encrypted .rar files. There is a note with passwords, but the encryption always fails. WINrar thinks it is because of the incorrect password. I know I have to extract those.

Oops-- When I look to find ISOs, dolphin said it found none in the Games file.

Being a novice, what mistake am I making?

I appreciate any responses.

[meganova]

The issue:
I have the extracted file in an easy access game folder, with Pikmin 2 being the only game in it. There is a folder that came from the .rar, and inside that, a bunch of encrypted .rar files. There is a note with passwords, but the encryption always fails. WINrar thinks it is because of the incorrect password. I know I have to extract those.

Extract the first part, and you should get an image file of the game, .gcm

What exactly does the error says? if it related to incorrect password, try inputting the password again.

[maddiystic]

Hi, and thanks for the response.

I have tried inputting the password in ~10 times. It said I had to extract a previous file first, and I cannot extract the first file because of encryption failure.

Could not extract the encrypted file. (Wrong Password?)

Or, if not the first;
Could not extract the file because a previous file must be extracted first.
Could not extract the encrypted file. (wrong file?)

It said something along those lines.

Thanks again for the response.

[meganova]

Post the screenshots of it, and where did you download it? from here?

[maddiystic]

Yes, the iso is from here. Thanks again for the responses.

This is my file screen (most of it, it is the .rar files)


This is the password notepad. (I assume)


This is most of my failed encyption notice. (I'm trying to unpack it.)


If I left-click on the .rar twice (Not unpacking), I see this (which also gives the password error)


There IS a .nfo file, but I'm not sure what it is. I don't know what type .nfo is, how to open it and what purpose it serves.
When I double left-click on it, this error pops up, and after clicking okay comes up a window with my computer specs(?).



Thank you for the response.

[meganova]

Are you sure you're using the right password? It should be same for all parts.

Open the .nfo with Notepad, then scroll through and search for the real password in there, if you can't find any, go back to here you download the game.
and did you open the .sfv with Notepad? then no, that's not the the password.

[maddiystic]

Thanks. But what should I open the .sfv with?
And I'm not sure how to open the .nfo up.

[meganova]

Just ignore the .sfv.
Right click on the .nfo, then go to Open With, and choose Notepad.

Can you link to where you download the game? There should be a password posted there.

[maddiystic]

...I never thought to check the comments. Thank you for the help, and sorry I wasted any time.